Desk calendar device



Marqh 3, 1942. VOGEL 2,274,813

DESK CALENDAR DEVICE Filed Feb. 9, 1940 1 2 6 7 8 9 10 1] I2 15 Z4 15 16 17 KB 19 2O INVENTOR MAX VDEEL.

ATTORN EY Patented Mar. 3, 1942 UirEn STATE OFFICE 1 Claim.

The present invention relates to a desk calendar device, and has for an object to provide a device of this character in which the usual type of monthly calendar pad can be supported and displayed, and to provide in combination with such calendar pad supporting feature a dial element having the numbers of the days of the month prominently displayed thereon and arranged in such relation to a sight opening that the numbers may be individually brought into register with the sight opening, thereby providing a large prominently displayed indication of the current day of the month. Another object is to provide a calendar device of permanent nature, that is, one that may be used year after year, the same being brought up to date simply by renewing the yearly calendar pad.

Another object is to provide a convenient means for changing the daily indication of the dial, such means consisting of finger engaging portions individual to each of the days, and stop means so arranged that the movement of the dial will be automatically limited to bring the successive day indications into accurate centrally disposed position in the sight opening. Another object is to provide such stop means which may be selectively operated to limit the movement of the dial to either one day or two days, the latter operation being utilized when a day has been skipped, as for instance on Monday or on the day after a holiday.

Another object is to provide a calendar device of relatively simple construction and which will lend itself to the incorporation of attractive designing so that in addition to its utility it will provide an attractive desk accessory, and to this end it is proposed to provide a structure which may be conveniently and economically produced from plastic material by the usual molding processes.

With the above and other objects in view, an embodiment of the invention is shown in the accompanying drawing, and this embodiment will be hereinafter more fully described with reference thereto, and the invention will be finally pointed out in the claim.

In the drawing:

Fig. 1 is a front elevation of the desk calendar device according to the illustrated exemplary embodiment of the invention.

Fig. 2 is a side elevation thereof.

Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view taken along the line 3-3 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a rear elevation.

Fig. 5 is a front elevation of the dial, detached from the device.

Similar reference characters indicate corresponding parts through the several figures of the drawing.

Referring to the drawing the desk calendar device, according to the illustrated exemplary embodiment of the invention, comprises a panel l0 supported upon rearwardly extending foot portions II, the panel being inclined rearwardly,

so that its face is at a suitable angle upon the desk to be conveniently observed by the user, and so as to distribute the weight of the device with respect to the supporting feet to prevent tilting over. The upper end of the panel is preferably circularly shaped, as at l2, to conform to the upper portion of the dial, presently more fully referred to, and centrally of this upper portion l2 there is provided a sight opening [3, the upper edge of the portion 12 at each side of the sight opening being recessed, as at Hll4, to provide automatic stop means to limit the manual movement of the dial, as will hereinafter more fully appear.

The dial I5 is provided at'its marginal portion IS with day indicating numerals from 1 to 31 equally spaced circumferentially and arranged in radial relation with respect to the center hole IT. The dial is rotatably mounted upon the rearward side of the panel [0 by means of an eyelet rivet l8 engaged through a hole [9 in the panel and the center hole It of the dial, and flanged over to secure it.

The edge of the dial is scalloped, as at 2!), to provide a series of finger engaging recesses, corresponding to the thirty-one days of the month. As seen in Fig. 1 the recess I4 at each side of the sight opening l3 provides a stop shoulder which conforms to the outer curve of the dial scallop next the central scallop in line with the sight opening, so that when it is desired to turn the dial to bring the succeeding day indication into register it is only necessary to engage the finger with the central scallop and move the dial until the finger is stopped by engagement with the shoulder of the recess M. In order to bring the second day into register, as for instance upon a Monday or the day after a holiday, the finger is engaged with the recess M at one side and moved to the recess l4 at the other side, thus turning the dial two spaces. In order to hold the dial flat against the rearward face of the panel 10 retaining shoulders 2| are provided to engage at suitable points over the marginal portion of the dial, and in the case of the device being molded from plastic material, as illustrated, these flanges may be conveniently formed as continuations of the supporting foot portions ll.

Upon the face of the panel [0 there is provided a three-sided flanged frame portion 22, open at its upper side, and into which a monthly calendar pad 23 is engaged, the sides of the frame 22 extending above the center eyelet l8 of the dial, so that the calendar pad will conceal it. The frame 22 permits the calendar pad to be readily removed for the purpose of tearing off the monthly pages and for renewing the pad at the end of the year, and also holds the pages of the pad flat, the unsecured lower and side edges of the pages being retained beneath the flanges of the frame.

I have illustrated and described a preferred and satisfactory embodiment of the invention, but it will be obvious that changes may be made therein, within the spirit and scope thereof, as defined in the appended claim.

Having thus described my invention, what I do claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent In a calendar device, a supporting panel having a sight opening, a dial rotatably supported upon the rearward side of said panel having a circumferential marginal date number containing portion in line with said sight opening, said dial adapted to be rotated to successively expose said date numbers insaid sight opening, and supporting foot means connected to the base of said panel for supporting it in inclined position, said foot means extending over the periphery of said dial at the rearward side thereof and having notches to receive the periphery of said dial to form retaining shoulder means upon the rearward side of said panel projecting over the marginal portion of said dial to maintain it in flat relation.

MAX VOGEL. 

